Hannah Boone, the youngest child of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan Boone, was born into a Boone family that belonged to the Friends Society, with Squire serving first as trustee and then as overseer of the Oley Meeting. After the family moved to the Yadkin River area of North Carolina in 1750, there is no evidence that they belonged to a Quaker meeting there, and many of the Boone children later became Baptists. In 1759, during severe Indian outbreaks among North Carolina settlements, Hannah was scalped in one such fight, but she survived and bore the scar for the rest of her life. She married John Stewart, also spelled Stuart, in 1765, and they had four daughters: Sarah, Mary, Rachel, and Elizabeth. John was a frontiersman like his brother-in-law Daniel Boone, and during an expedition into Kentucky he failed to return to camp and was eventually presumed drowned. Five years later, workers clearing the Wilderness Road found human remains in a large hollow sycamore tree, and a shot pouch and powder horn bearing the initials JS identified the remains as John Stewart. In 1777 Hannah married Richard Pennington in Rowan County, North Carolina, in a ceremony performed by Jonathan Mulkey. Richard served in the Revolutionary War in Montgomery County, Virginia, where their children Joshua, Daniel, John Stewart, and Abigail Pennington were born. After the war, Richard, a farmer, received land for himself and his son Daniel in what would become Monroe County, and Hannah, nearly 50 years old, made the journey to Kentucky, along with two of her daughters by John Stewart, Mary Osborne and Elizabeth Lewis, who also came with their families. By 1798 Hannah had opened her home to other newcomers to Kentucky, and in 1799 she joined the church there by letter from Dutchman's Creek in North Carolina, showing she had been baptized and was in good standing before leaving. Richard is listed among the members and in church support and disciplinary matters. Around 1811 Hannah and Richard moved with their son Joshua and his wife Polly Gist to White County, Tennessee, where Richard died two years later and was buried. Hannah then returned to Monroe County and lived with her son Daniel until her death on April 9, 1828, after which she was buried in Mill Creek Cemetery. In 1931 the Tompkinsville News reported that her remains had been moved to Old Mulkey, though some local people disputed whether the grave had actually been fully disinterred; despite that uncertainty, Old Mulkey has since been recognized as Hannah Boone's burial site.